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UNITED STATES PATENT OEEIcE.

ISAAC I. COLE, OF HILLSDALE, NEW JERSEY.

IMPROVEMENT IN CHAIRS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent Eo. 148,350, dated March 10, 1874; application filed December 29, 1873. l

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ISAAC I. COLE, of Hillsdale, in the county of Bergen and State of New Jersey, have invented a new and Improved Veneer Chair, of which the following is a speciiication:

In the accompanying drawing, Figure 1 represents a front view, and Fig. 2 a side view, of my improved chair, constructed of veneers.

Similar letters of reference indicatel corresponding parts. Y

The invention will first be fully described, and then pointed out in the claim.

In the drawing, A represents a chair made of several parts, which are obtained by pressing several layers of veneer of suitable size and thickness into forms of corresponding shape. If three layers of veneers are used, the grain of the middle one runs crosswise to that of the outer layers, and so alternatelyin similar man- Y C, and the front or seat part D, which latter extends up over the upper part of the back, and gives additional strength to the same. These sections of the chair may be iirmly attached to each other, at the points of connection, by being glued together, or by means of rivets, clasps, or in other suitable manner, as shown. They may be made still lighter, without weakening the strength of the parts, by recessing between the legs, or in the back, in suitable manner.

A neat and ornamental eii'ect may be produced by using dark-colored veneers betweenthe outer veneers of light-colored wood, or vice versa, and cutting suitable designs into the outermost layers, so as to expose the middle one thereby.v p

Having thus described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent As an article of manufacture, a chair made of three parts, B C D, the seat part D extending up over the back B, both extending down to forni feet, and the feet spaced and braced by parts C, all as described.

ISAAC I. COLE.

Witnesses: T. B. MosHEE, ALEx. F. ROBERTS. 

